The Ethics of Virtues in Medical Professional Moral
- VernacularTitle:论作为“德性”的医学职业道德
- Author:
Yueshu LIU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Normative ethics;
Virtue ethics;
Medicine
- From:
Chinese Medical Ethics
1994;0(05):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Normative ethics is an important ethic theory that has been applied in contemporary medical ethics as principles and rules.Normative ethics can guide the doctors and the nurses to do a right behavior in medical practice effectively,but at the same time it has some limitation.Those limitation are mainly about a conflict from different moral norms and a demand for too perfect moral realm,which make the doctors and the nurses often meet a moral dilemma,and sometimes their working enthusiasm would be dampened.Virtues ethics is a different ethic theory that has some advantage such as consistence,stability and flexibility,so it can give us a more wide space of mind to perfect our medical moral theory.If we wish benevolence,justice and other virtues come true widely in medical practice,we should to rethink our professional moral education and to set a series of good rules and regulations.I believe our country's doctors and nurses would take shape a prevalent professional virtue when virtue ethics have been accepted as a important ethic theory.
